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2026 Flavour ForEcast recipe challenge
This year’s Flavour Forecast® recipe challenge, designed for Year 9 and Year 10 students, encourages them to respond to a design brief and create two original recipes that reflect the flavour trends for the year.
All students who enter will receive a certificate, regardless of whether their entry is complete.
About 2026 flavour trends
The three flavour trends identified in the Flavour Forecast 26th Edition are:
- Attainable Opulence
- Simple to Spectacular
- Sauce from Somewhere
These trends are detailed in the following links:
What is the Flavour Forecast?
2026_CA_Flavour_Forecast_Sizzle_Video_16x9_120225.mp4
Design brief
Entry form
Resources to support the recipe challenge
- Culinary techniques and ingredients glossary
- Discretionary choices
- Economic considerations and budget-friendly ideas
- Food presentation and photography tips
- Handy recipes
- Justification tips (coming)
- Recipe challenge costings
- Recipe writing tips
- Student checklists for each trend ** new in 2026!
- Suggested 5-week lesson plan
- Suggested assessment rubric for use in the classroom
- Trendspotting
- Teacher feedback form
- The vegetable matrix by Alice Zaslavsky (Murdoch Books)** new in 2026!